Mike:

No this Smart didn't have manufacturers plates. It has Swiss plates and a CH
sticker on the back so it was registered in Switzerland. Also I saw it start
up and drive away and it sounded like it had a spark ignition engine.

Zach Kaplan

on 2001/1/11 12:27, Mike Harrnacker at harrnack@yahoo.com wrote:

> I seem to remember reading (somewhere) that the Smart
> could come to the US as in electric-only form to help
> DaimlerChrysler meet California electric vehicle
> quotas.  Or was it the M-B A-series that might make
> the trip?
>
> Anyways...you might have seen a test vehicle.  Did it
> have manufacturer's plates by any chance?
>
> Mike H.
>
>>
>> Several months ago out in front of the post office
>> in Alameda, CA I saw a
>> Smart with Swiss plates (very nice looking
>> microcar). Perhaps this was
>> imported by a tourist for temporary use in the US?
>>
>> Zach Kaplan